Author: Nathaniel Dwight
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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Author: Richard TURNER (LL.D., the Elder.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 64

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Author: Richard TURNER (LL.D., the Elder.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 84

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Author: O.F.G. Sitwell
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774844574
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 682

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Geography as an academic discipline dates back to the last few decades of the nineteenth century. However, during the preceding centuries a large body of English-language literature relevant to the field of special geography was published. Four Centuries of Special Geography lists all the works published before 1888 and includes descriptions of each entry and notes on later editions.

Author: William Cooke Taylor
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Languages : en
Pages : 742

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Author: Martin Brückner
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807838977
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293

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The rapid rise in popularity of maps and geography handbooks in the eighteenth century ushered in a new geographic literacy among nonelite Americans. In a pathbreaking and richly illustrated examination of this transformation, Martin Bruckner argues that geographic literacy as it was played out in popular literary genres--written, for example, by William Byrd, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Royall Tyler, Charles Brockden Brown, Meriwether Lewis, and William Clark--significantly influenced the formation of identity in America from the 1680s to the 1820s. Drawing on historical geography, cartography, literary history, and material culture, Bruckner recovers a vibrant culture of geography consisting of property plats and surveying manuals, decorative wall maps and school geographies, the nation's first atlases, and sentimental objects such as needlework samplers. By showing how this geographic revolution affected the production of literature, Bruckner demonstrates that the internalization of geography as a kind of language helped shape the literary construction of the modern American subject. Empirically rich and provocative in its readings, The Geographic Revolution in Early America proposes a new, geographical basis for Anglo-Americans' understanding of their character and its expression in pedagogical and literary terms.

Author: Charles Theodore Middleton
Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
ISBN: 9781385779262
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 652

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Rich in titles on English life and social history, this collection spans the world as it was known to eighteenth-century historians and explorers. Titles include a wealth of travel accounts and diaries, histories of nations from throughout the world, and maps and charts of a world that was still being discovered. Students of the War of American Independence will find fascinating accounts from the British side of conflict. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ Cambridge University Library N005096 Titlepage in red and black. Published in parts. Horizontal chain lines. In this edition the titlepage has: 'A compendious history of every empire, .. ', the preface is signed, and sig.B on p.5 is under "table.." London: printed for J. Cooke, 1778-1779. 2v., plates: maps.; 2°

Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 512

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Author: Library of Congress. Catalog, 1868
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Languages : en
Pages : 504

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Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 512

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